Montana
Federal agencies obligated $12.8 billion for work performed in Montana in fiscal year 2026, ranking 48 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $12,845,876,458
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 48 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $11,295.73
- Divided by 1,137,233 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $12,845,876,458 divided by 1,137,233, the 2024 resident population estimate from U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA). It is dollars of federally obligated work recorded in Montana per resident. It is not federal money received by residents, and it is not a payment anyone receives.
Largest agencies
| Rank | Agency | Obligations | Share of state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Security Administration | $5,191,142,277 | 40.4% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $3,006,666,503 | 23.4% |
| 3 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $973,978,145 | 7.6% |
| 4 | Department of Transportation | $961,738,566 | 7.5% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $923,853,321 | 7.2% |
| 6 | Department of Defense | $401,508,258 | 3.1% |
| 7 | Department of the Interior | $314,484,224 | 2.4% |
| 8 | Department of Education | $303,914,678 | 2.4% |
| 9 | Department of Homeland Security | $220,169,711 | 1.7% |
| 10 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $160,573,273 | 1.2% |
| 11 | Railroad Retirement Board | $137,487,808 | 1.1% |
| 12 | Federal Communications Commission | $82,255,433 | 0.6% |
| 13 | Department of Energy | $75,772,289 | 0.6% |
| 14 | National Science Foundation | $29,353,008 | 0.2% |
| 15 | Environmental Protection Agency | $19,176,777 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 32 agencies with obligations here. Montana accounts for 0.3% of the $4,725,719,515,020 that carries a place-of-performance state.
What this page cannot show
- Place of performance is the location the recipient reported. A contract recorded here may be performed, subcontracted, or spent elsewhere.
- These are obligations recorded in the period, not outlays and not money received by residents or by the state government.
- A per-resident figure divides work performed in a state by the people who live there. The two are not the same population, and a state with a large federal installation or contractor will rank high without its residents receiving that money.
Related
Nearby in the ranking
Largest agencies here
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-18apps/web/queries/spending/states_by_federal_awards.sql, apps/web/queries/spending/state_agencies.sql
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA) (population denominator) — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, public domaintransforms/seeds/census_state_population.csv
Data retrieved